The world's eyes were on Mississippi during the summer of 1964,
when civil rights activists launched an ambitious African American
voter registration project and were met with violent resistance
from white supremacists. Sue Sojourner and her husband arrived in
Holmes County, Mississippi, in the wake of this historic time,
known as "Freedom Summer." From September 1964 until her departure
from the state in 1969, Sojourner collected an incredible number of
documents, oral histories, and photographs chronicling the dramatic
events that she witnessed. In this remarkable book, written in
collaboration with Cheryl Reitan, Sojourner presents a fascinating
account of one of the civil rights movement's most active and
broad-based community organizing operations in the South. Thunder
of Freedom unites Sojourner's personal experiences with her
insights regarding the dynamics of race relations in the 1960s
South, providing readers with a unique look at the struggle for
rights and equality in Mississippi. Illustrated with selections
from Sojourner's acclaimed catalog of photographs, this profound
book tells the powerful, often intimate stories of ordinary people
who accomplished extraordinary things.
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